Caracas shock: The failure of South American leaders paved the way for US intervention in Venezuela
Rather than strongly protesting this intervention, the region’s governments might reflect on the many chances they missed to confront the region’s worst political catastrophe of the century. Cynically focused on domestic calculations and commercial ties with Chavismo, leaders from Brazil’s Lula to Argentina’s Fernández and Mexico’s López Obrador were, at a minimum, complicit as a gangster kleptocracy entrenched itself in Venezuela and then metastasized into a destabilizing regional force.
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